by Victoria Clayton · House of Books B.V., The · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044312102
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«Alle sterren van de hemel» is the novel by Victoria Clayton, published by House of Books B.V., in paperback (415 pages, in Dutch).
The novel follows Harriet Byng, aged twenty-one, who tries to save her eccentric family when her father, a celebrated classical actor, is arrested after being accused of assaulting a rival. Over nine months, Harriet faces absurd situations and true love, though well disguised.
The original title is «Clouds Among the Stars», originally published in 2003. The translation is by Parma van Loon.
For readers who enjoy family novels and chick lit, with an entertaining tone and extravagant characters.
Victoria Clayton, née Walker, is a British author. She began writing at her parents' house in Cambridgeshire. When dining one night in London she sat next to Bill McCreadle of publisher Rupert Hart-Davis who agreed to look at her manuscript, and in 1969, when she was just 21, he decided to publish what became The Winter of Enchantment. Its sequel, The House Called Hadlows, was published in 1972. The books concern a boy called Sebastian who enters another world through a magic mirror. He meets a girl called Melissa who has been imprisoned by an evil Enchanter and resolves to rescue her. In the second book Sebastian and Melissa release a house from a curse made by the Evil One.
